On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > I don't know why that would be so taxing. I often have both FireFox > and Safari running side by side ...
I should come clean, I do run more than just two browsers. I tend to run in one of two modes. "Working" involves the two browsers plus a 512M Windows XP instance running in Virtualbox. For "photo" stuff I have Bridge and Photoshop. I find it best to close down the VM and quit Firefox if I want to run Photoshop happily. I'm actually in the habit of closing down both Firefox and the VM when I'm not using them, as the VM idles at about 10% CPU usage which doesn't help the battery, and Firefox tends to hoard memory if you leave it running for a few days. So ideally, for my usage, I'd like 8G as of now and at least 16G for future proofing. Or maybe a good SSD so swapping can happen a bit faster. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
